What is AI?
The stakes of this lecture are as follows: Can an ordinary person having a high school education and genuine interest understand the basic principles of Artificial Intelligence in just an one-hour lecture?
Digital Painting Analysis and Conservation
This lecture overviews an important topic of Digital Humanities, namely digital painting analysis that has many applications in painting conservation and in the history of arts.
AI Science and High School Mathematics
This lecture addresses the challenge to explain the AI science basics using only High school Mathematics. Luckily enough, it has been proven to be a successful and very interesting undertaking.
Social Impact of AI Science and Engineering: Information Filtering and Disinformation
This lecture addresses several important questions on the interface between technology and society:
AI Science and Engineering: A new scientific discipline? Lecture
No matter their exact form, AI Science and Engineering and its sister disciplines have many great challenges to address. Here is a partial list:
A survey of manifold learning and its applications for multimedia, Hannes Fassold, Proc. ICVSP, 2023
The survey paper gives an introduction into manifold learning and how it is employed for important application fields (similarity search, image classification, synthesis & enhancement, video analysis, 3D data processing, nonlinear dimensio